Once the malware has been installed, it infects your device and begins working toward the hackers’ goals. What separates the different types of malware from one another is how they go about doing this. So how does malware work, and how do hackers use it to target unsuspecting victims? Let...
One of those terms that get bounced around a lot, in discussions of malware is whether that threat is “in the wild.” But what does that actually mean? If your thoughts go to Jaques Cousteau or Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, you’re on the right track. It’s meant to differentiat...
Malware doesn’t respect national boundaries. Wherever there are people, whatever language they speak, you’ll find malware trying for a foothold. If you happen to get hit with a Trojan meant for China, Ukraine, or Brazil, you should certainly reject the installer, just as folks in China or...
Let’s look at these categories one by one and what makes them different from the other malware types: Viruses In the early days of the computer, when people refer to a virus, they actually mean malware. Regular end users who are not aware of the difference between the two terms refer ...
Blue screen of death (BSOD):Windows crashes to a blue screen and displays an error, but this issue should rarely happen. Constant BSOD issues could mean the computer has malware. Excess disk storage or loss:Malware might delete data, releasing large amounts of storage space or adding several...
The stop error screen, or as it's colloquially known for its blue coloring, the BSOD, is an error screen that appears when something has gone critically wrong with your PC. It doesn't mean it's fundamentally broken, but it means something has gone so wrong with it that it can no long...
Well, the idea of encryption is pretty straightforward: It turns data into something that cannot be read. But what doesend-to-endmean? What are its pros and cons? Without getting into the underlying math and technical terms, we’ll explain it as simply as we can. ...
All communication must be secure regardless of network location; network location does not imply trust. Access to individual enterprise resources is granted on a per-connection basis; trust in the requester is evaluated before the access is granted. Access to resources is determined by policy, inclu...
Because fileless malware attacks require no malicious files, traditional antivirus tools that perform hardware scans to locate threats may miss them altogether. This does not mean fileless malware detection is impossible, however. Fileless malware includes code that does several things regular viruses ...
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